vSphere Contract Job Trends in the North of England

VMware vSphere
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 163 188
Rank change year-on-year -11 +25 +5
Contract jobs citing vSphere 11 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.27% 0.097% 0.20%
As % of the System Software category 1.96% 0.84% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 8
10th Percentile £406 £351 £309
25th Percentile £416 £391 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £425 £369
Median % change year-on-year +7.29% +15.33% -7.88%
75th Percentile £491 £438 £442
90th Percentile £538 - £460
England median daily rate £550 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -

All System Software Skills
North of England

vSphere falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 561 479 717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 13.83% 11.61% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 311 503
10th Percentile £200 £200 £186
25th Percentile £340 £356 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +7.95% -2.22%
75th Percentile £534 £576 £564
90th Percentile £610 £650 £649
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 46
10th Percentile - £14.16 £15.75
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.33 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.31 £21.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +10.53% -5.61%
75th Percentile £19.25 £25.32 £29.38
90th Percentile £39.75 £58.03 £47.35
England median hourly rate £34.50 £28.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +20.00% -37.74% +105.24%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing vSphere relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

vSphere job vacancy trend in the North of England

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing vSphere.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing vSphere

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in the North of England

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing vSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing vSphere

vSphere
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the North of England region over the 6 months to 3 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire - 8 £447 - 7
North West -14 3 £550 +29.41% 2
vSphere
England

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) IIS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) IaaS
2 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) DNS
2 4 (36.36%) Firewall
3 3 (27.27%) NAS
3 3 (27.27%) SAN
4 2 (18.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (18.18%) VSAN
5 1 (9.09%) Network Security
5 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 1 (9.09%) VLAN
5 1 (9.09%) VoIP
5 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) GitLab
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Migration Specialist
1 3 (27.27%) Server Migration Specialist
1 3 (27.27%) Server Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (9.09%) IBM XIV
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) VMS
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Kanban
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Scrum
2 3 (27.27%) Security Hardening
2 3 (27.27%) Server Migrations
2 3 (27.27%) Validation
3 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
3 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Edge Computing
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Minimum Viable Product
3 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) VCAP
3 1 (9.09%) CCNA
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (63.64%) VMware NSX
3 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
4 3 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Ansible
2 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) vCenter Server
3 4 (36.36%) PowerCLI
4 3 (27.27%) vRealize
5 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
5 2 (18.18%) SCCM
5 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (45.45%) F5
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) Broadcom
5 1 (9.09%) Aruba
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco
5 1 (9.09%) Citrix
5 1 (9.09%) Dell
5 1 (9.09%) HP
5 1 (9.09%) IBM
5 1 (9.09%) Meraki
5 1 (9.09%) Oracle
5 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 1 (9.09%) Veeam